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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR006773349
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. ***Simply Brit*** Welcome to our online used book store, where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped within 24 hours and our lightning fast-delivery within 48 hours coupled with our prompt customer service ensures a smooth journey from ordering to delivery. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Seller Inventory # mon0001732731
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. All of our books without an ISBN number (normally pre-1970 in date) are described individually in detail. Books with an ISBN number (this one included) are all offered for sale in a reasonable condition or better: some may be in very good, near fine, or fine condition. If the condition is critical to your decision to purchase, then please contact us and we will let you know our view of its condition. If the book is very heavy, we will may need to contact you before completion of purchase to advise you of extra postage costs. Seller Inventory # 60202
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Book is in good condition. Ex-library/school book with typical external/internal stamps and markings. Unclipped dust jacket. Seller Inventory # G0137965
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. tidy ex library -d/j had been plastic protected. Seller Inventory # 4006bq
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 185pp; illus.Sunned spine to jacket. Seller Inventory # 019122
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. clean tidy copy. Seller Inventory # 4240ac
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st. Early history of Shaw Savill and Albion, the famous British shipping line and its vessels. 185pp, illustrated. VG copy in dust wrapper Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 019572
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Photos, Art, Maps (illustrator). 1st. This fine book covers the history of the Shaw Saville (SS) Line from 1858 to 1882, the time the company operated a fleet of majestic sailing ships which carried thousands of immigrants from Great Britain to New Zealand in the first 25 years of the company's operations. The end iof the age of sail was not the end of SS, which went on to provided a link between Britain and the Antipodes for another century. The author David Savill was the grandson Walter Saville, one of the line's founding partners. Although born in England he spent his youthful years on his family's sheep station near Hanmer Springs in North Canterbury, returning to England for study at Winchester, he served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in WWII, then joined the Colonial Service, assigned to Nigeria unil its independence in 1960 when he joined SS in London. Although many of the company's records were destroyed in the Blitz of 1941 he was able to reconstruct an impressive history of the emigration trade in his book. In 1858 the company arranged for its first ship to take immigrants to NZ, shortly after the partners formed the company carrying their names. Within a year of its estalishment SS sailings for NZ (nine in 1858) held a dominant position in the transport on immingants from London to NZ. Good fortune favoured SS in its formative years, first with news of gold rushes in Nelson and in Otago, with prospective miners figuring largely among the passengers, cheap land in NZ was another attraction to head for the Antipodes and some ships carried large numbers of women destined to be servants in the colony. The majority of the voyages to NZ took 100 days or more with a rare trip of 70+ days or over 130 days at the other extreme. David Savill has drawn together an early history of SS, with the more human aspect of the attraction and detractions of long ocean voyaging under sail, the conditions aboard ofter depending on the weather ecountered, fair wind of foul. Accommodation, meals, on-board activities, unruly crews and the hazards of the voyage are all covered in this very informative and interesting aspect of the social history of both the British Isles and NZ, with SS carrying about 13,000 migrants to the other end of the earth until SS and the Albion Line merged in 1882. First edition of 1986. 185 pages including eight appendices, bibliography and index, illustrations include 12 colour reproductions (most full page) of paintings of SS saiiling ships and one full page ship colour photograph, plus three Savill family portraits, 12 b/w photos, 12 line illustrations and two maps. Blue hard covers with gilt spine titles NF, text block also NF, no inscriptions. Colour art DJ is also NF, plastic proteced with top and lower edges taped. Seller Inventory # 004727
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Near-fine hardback copy in Near-fine jacket. Seller Inventory # 043477